What An Awesome Album - Boards Of Canada Strike Again!
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ALWAYS HAVE LOVED THESE GUYS - BEAUTIFUL MELODIES IN A SEA OF DISTORTED BLEEPS AND PHASES AND SAMPLES - FAMILIAR YET NEW - COHESIVE AND SPARSE - SILENCE AMPLIFIES SOUND
a definite follow-up to the legendary MUSIC HAS THE RIGHT TO CHILDREN
EXCELLENT COME-DOWN TRACKS............. 5/5 
Boards of Canada
The Campfire Headphase
(Warp Records)
Boards Of Canada: the name is mysterious and just a touch forbidding. The group's track titles similarly combine an eye for poetic resonance, nostalgia and the peculiar. Until now the group have remained mute and allowed their music and texts to speak for them, while an ever-inquisitive public have projected their own images upon their shadowy outlines. The lengthy periods of silence that have accreted between their infrequent releases have only served to amplify the fascination.
Music Has The Right To Children (1998) and the EP, In A Beautiful Place In The Countryside (2000), forged their reputation for a haunted nostalgia that at times touched the sublime. Once led into their labyrinth by the dreamy voices of cult members and the laughter of distant children, it's difficult not to find oneself lost in reveries about long-lost polaroids edged with the encroaching darkness of times evermore distant. Boards Of Canada's best work teases the listener with things that lie just beyond reach. The Campfire Headphase returns to the seductive beauty of those works.
Typical of the enigma that is Boards Of Canada, in The Campfire Headphase they have created something of a paradox: immediately satisfying yet leaving you desperately craving more. Always exquisitely compelling, the album distils the essence of their influences - the warped melodies of My Bloody Valentine, the transcendental dreamy spirit of Cocteau Twins and the sensory dementia of the Incredible String Band - maintaining their charm without ever descending into mimicry. The overall effect is of a band setting out to explore pastures new; some of the Boards of Canada signatures remain, but rather than abandoning their audience they're steadily taking us with them. Certainly this seems to be the aim of the band who recently stated, "Our drive with this record is to try and get us out of the dance section (in music stores) and into the main section with all the others bands." Like Stanley Kubrick, Boards of Canada seem to want their music to succeed and reach the widest possible audience, but purely on their terms and without compromise.
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 IF YOU GOT TRANCE IN YOUR PANTS WHIP IT OUT!!! IF NOT JUST WHIP IT OUT ANYWAY!!!
   
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